SISMID Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases

July 9, 2018 - July 25, 2018

The 10th Annual Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) will be held July 9-25, 2018 at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

SISMID is designed to introduce infectious disease researchers to modern methods of statistical analysis and mathematical modeling and to introduce statisticians and mathematical modelers to the statistical and dynamic problems posed by modern infectious disease data.

Participants choose from a series of two-and-a-half day modules and design a program best-suited to their interests (most participants take two or three modules. Individuals attending the institute receive certificates of course completion in recognition of their participation.

Example modules from the 2017 institute include:

Probability and statistical inference

Mathematical models of infectious diseas

Casual inference

Stochastic epidemic models with inference

Microbiome data analysis

Simulation-based inference for epidemics

MCMC I and II for infectious diseases

Contact network epidemiology

Statistics and modeling with novel data streams

Spatial statistics in epidemiology and public health

Evolutionary dynamics and molecular epidemiology of viruses

Pathogen evolution, selection, and immunity

Evaluating vaccine efficacy

Scholarship applications for SISMID will be accepted beginning January 5, 2018. Registration will open February 1, 2018.